COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, February 15, 2010, SPA -- A police spokesman says an explosion in northern Sri Lanka has killed two Tamil children and wounded six others. Prishantha Jayakody says authorities are investigating the nature of the device which exploded Monday in the Jaffna peninsula, the Tamil minority's cultural heartland. He was quoted as saying by the Associated Press that the children picked up and then threw away a small ball-like object, which then exploded. --SPA 15:41 LOCAL TIME 12:41 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/748538